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Rugby: Ducking coach decision is lame
If the Blues are on the hunt for a new coach, which surely they are, their silence on the matter is potentially closing the door on the best possible candidates.
If the Blues are on the hunt for a new coach, which surely they are, their silence on the matter is potentially closing the door on the best possible candidates.
As the Blues board consider who will coach the team next year - and with half this season gone, they must be - Wayne Smith has to be close to the top of their list.
How the Blues must be wondering when this interminable season is going to end. The defeats are blurring now.
Blues' first-five Dan Bowden knows what it's like to play outside Dan Carter and he insists the struggling All Black isn't finished yet.
With John Kirwan about to rest All Black and Blues captain Jerome Kaino, Steven Luatua will today be named at No8 to take on the Crusaders.
Benji Marshall says his short stint playing for the Blues made him a better league player.
In sporting circles and rugby conversation, failure has become the accepted outcome for the Blues and they stayed true to that course against the Highlanders, writes Wynne Gray.
Join us here for tonight's live blog of the Super Rugby clash between the Highlanders and the Blues.
Jimmy Cowan is going back to his roots - back to Dunedin to face the team he played for more than 100 times, a team he freely admits are much better now.
Kees was among 90 youngsters whose names were drawn from a ballot in an exercise in which 10 others received jerseys through the BNZ and team Facebook pages.
Cowan, Bekhuis and Woodcock or Naholo, Fekitoa, Aaron Smith, Ash Dixon and Dan Pryor - Wynne Gray wonders, which team got the better deal?
Luke Braid is another concussion casualty for the Blues and will miss Saturday's match against the Highlanders in Dunedin.
At the start of the Super Rugby season, the Blues had a mish-mash of backs while the Highlanders would struggle with forwards. Combine them and they might be handy, writes Wynne Gray.
The Blues have won their first match of the season, a nailbiting and nervous victory over the Brumbies.
Relive all the action as Blues grabbed their first Super Rugby victory of the season, beating the Brumbies at Eden Park.
The Sanzar investigation into Waratahs coach Michael Cheika raised some questions. A 'draft report' of the findings provides the answers.
Waratahs and Wallabies coach Michael Cheika entered the refs room and spoke to match official Jaco Peyper at half time of their game against the Blues.
The Australian conference leaders want to inflict further misery on their Blues hosts but plans to assess Jimmy Cowan's halfback credentials are in limbo.
Charles Piutau is still in the All Black frame, but Francis Saili's career has gone mostly downhill.
When you're bottom of the pile, you are usually there for some reason. It's no accident you are gazing up at every other team after seven rounds of competition, writes Wynne Gray.
Justin Marshall writes: If the Blues are going to break their drought before it reaches double figures, it has to be this Friday night at Eden Park.
Yet another narrow defeat left Sir John Kirwan sure of one thing - sooner or later the Blues are going to make another team pay. And sooner would be preferable.